Janet Munro
Birthday
1934/09/28
Day of death
1972/12/06 (38 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Blackpool, England, UK
Also know as
Janet Neilson Horsburgh
Biography
Born Janet Neilson Horsburgh, Janet Munro, was an English actress, best known for Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) for which she won a Golden Globe Award. and Life for Ruth (1962), for which she received a BAFTA Film Award nomination. She died aged 38 of a heart condition.
Acting
(1961) The Day the Earth Caught Fire
as Jeannie Craig
(1958) The Crawling Eye
as Anne Pilgrim
(1959) Third Man on the Mountain
as Lizbeth Hempel
(1960) Swiss Family Robinson
as Roberta 'Bertie'
(1959) Darby O'Gill and the Little People
as Katie O'Gill
(1962) Afternoon of a Nymph
as Elaine
(1959) Tommy the Toreador
as Amanda
(1963) Bitter Harvest
as Jennie
(1964) Hide and Seek
as Maggie
(1959) Perilous Assignment
as Self
(1968) Sebastian
as Carol Fancy
(1958) The Young and the Guilty
as Sue Connor
(1962) Life for Ruth
as Pat Harris
(1964) A Jolly Bad Fellow
as Delia Brooks
(1957) Small Hotel
as Effie
(1968) The Admirable Crichton
as Tweeny
(1964) Daylight Robbery
as Darryl's mum
(1961) The Horsemasters
as Janet Hale
(1968) Cry WoIf
as Polly
(1971) The Piano
as Mabel
(1959) I Captured the King of the Leprechauns
as Katie O'Gill
(2002) Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
as Self (archive)
(1960) Escape to Paradise/Water Birds
as ---
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Helen Pettigrew
(1970) Play for Today
as ---
(1968) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
as ---
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Amanda
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Tweeny